Boston Pt. 2

In my last post I confessed that I am often a coward and how I lose faith easily. That's still true. Among many things that I could write to you about I'd like to follow up on what I said last time.

After a semester of spinning my wheels and backsliding God has (I feel) finally gotten my attention once again. The Scripture is right when it says that "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way." Why do we wait for Him to get our attention? I don't know. Besides the fact that we, by our nature, love to hate the things of God. Now more than before I feel God calling me back to loving Him. How sweet is the communion between God and man? That Christ is Savior, Lord, AND Friend? That Christ is a friend is becoming a new reality that I'm starting to see and feel more than I ever have. O what a friend we have in Jesus:

What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilage to carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
Oh what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer!

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged,
Take it to the Lord in prayer:
Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus Knows our every weakness,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Saviour, still our refuge;
Take it to the Lord in prayer:
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer;
In His arms He'll take and shield thee;
Thou wilt find a solace there.

What a privilege, what a peace! Can we find a friend so faithful? Still our refuge, still our shield and solace.

Things don't seem so impossible and futile when God is your friend. I was (and still often am) concerned about my possible future in Boston; but Oh how sweet is being with Jesus and feeling the joy of friendship with God. And knowing that he is able. In Ephesians 3 Paul says glory be to "Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think."

God is able. God is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask of Him to do and anything we can even conceive of.

My fears: I might fail in Boston. People will reject the gospel. God might be dishonored.

My hopes: God moves mightily in the lives of the people of Boston. God is glorified and made much of.

God is able to do so much more than any of my hopes! He's got a better plan and He's bigger than my fears.

Can/Will God bring revival to the hearts of the people of New England?

He is able to do FAR more!

So I will continue to pray and seek holiness. Pray with me?